Step-Motherhood

Ditch Days

| rjungle

We have ten children. I know that seems like a lot, and it is. It’s a lot of mouths to feed. A lot of clothes to wash. A lot of homework every weekday. A lot of needs to fill.

But.

It’s a lot of hugs. It’s a lot of personality. It’s a lot (like, a LOT a lot) of love. It’s a lot of hard work, too.

So sometimes, when some of the children go with their other parent and some choose to stay home, we have a ditch day up in the mountains to reconnect with ourselves and enjoy this world we have been given.

The water was cold, the breeze was cool, and it was sooooo good for my soul.

Eye Balls

| rjungle

Sometimes, we have acute allergic reactions to bugs that fly in our eyes on the way home from school and can’t see anything.

Luckily, Everlee already had an appointment scheduled for that morning with Elite Eye Care here and they let me bring Sterling in right away to get this mess all healed up. He was a trooper and got two suckers, sooooo…the eye doc is on his list of favorite people right now!

This is AFTER I put a cold compress on it; the soft, white part of his lower lid was oozing out when I first saw it. I’m not a mom that freaks out over stuff, but MAN!! It was tough to see. Luckily, I have a great poker face when it comes to “owies”. Nate, on the other hand….not so much. We really need to work on his bedside manner before the next kid goes down!